<p>A black Indianapolis police officer is suing the National Football League over videos and tweets he says imply he shot and killed a suspect because of &#8220;systemic racism.&#8221;</p>
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<p>&#8220;Indianapolis Metro Police Department Officer De’Joure Mercer filed the lawsuit in the federal Southern District of Indiana Court&#8221; Monday, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/sports/nfl-lawsuit-police-officer-alleged-implication-criminally-killed-campaign-honoree">Fox News reported</a>, &#8220;over video and tweets the league published last year&#8221; as part of the &#8220;Say Their Stories&#8221; campaign &#8220;claiming that a Black man he shot and killed died because of &#8216;systemic racism.'&#8221;</p>
<p>The lawsuit centers around the NFL&#8217;s decision to honor Dreasjon Reed &#8212; &#8220;one of the many individuals being honored by players and coaches this season through the NFL’s helmet decal program.&#8221;</p>
<p>According to Indianapolis police officers who spoke with the Indianapolis Star, officers observed Reed driving erratically and initiated a vehicular pursuit. A sergeant for the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department eventually called off the chase because of &#8220;how fast Reed was driving,&#8221; but Mercer later &#8220;saw Reed driving eastbound on 62nd Street before parking at a business. Both the officer and Reed left their cars, and a foot pursuit began.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Police said there was a confrontation between the two &#8230; that involved an exchange of gunfire, and the officer called in the shooting at 6:16 p.m,&#8221; according to the Indianapolis Star. &#8220;Police said the officer used his service weapon after a Taser deployment was &#8216;ineffective.&#8217; Fifteen casings were recovered at the scene. Police said they believe a weapon found at the scene belonged to Reed.&#8221;</p>
<p>Reed&#8217;s death sparked a series of protests in Indianapolis, and the NFL featured Reed as one of 87 &#8220;victims of systemic racism, victims of police misconduct, and social justice heroes.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mercer, however, says that &#8220;materials the league published imply that Mercer &#8216;committed occupational misconduct and even criminal acts during the May 6 (e)ncounter with Reed, similar to that which were inflicted upon George Floyd,'&#8221; per Fox.</p>
<p>&#8220;De’Joure Mercer is a hero. He tracked down a very dangerous criminal wanted by the police, who was a threat to the citizens of Indianapolis,&#8221; Mercer&#8217;s attorney, Guy A. Relford said in a statement to media about the suit. &#8220;He put his life on the line and was nearly killed in that effort. He was completely exonerated after an exhaustive investigation into the death of Mr. Reed. For NFL Enterprises then to suggest he was involved in police or racist misconduct is totally false, defamatory, and unacceptable. What happened here has nothing to do with racism.</p>
<p>&#8220;While we support NFL Enterprises’ efforts to address social justice issues, Officer Mercer is taking a stand for the many, many good cops on duty across America. He is standing up for his friends and colleagues and sending a message that before you accuse a decorated police officer of misconduct in a national campaign, you had better get your facts straight,&#8221; Relford noted.</p>
<p>The NFL launched the &#8220;Say Their Stories&#8221; campaign ahead of the 2020-2021 season as part of its ramped-up social justice endeavors. The goal was, according to the league&#8217;s announcement, &#8220;to continue the theme of social justice, protest, and outreach that has resonated throughout the nation, and enact fundamental change by amplifying the names and stories of victims of police brutality to drive the narrative forward.&#8221;</p>
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<p>After a jury ruled Tuesday that former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was guilty of murder, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi thanked George Floyd for “sacrificing” his life, claiming that his name will “always be synonymous with justice.”</p>
<blockquote><p>“Thank you, George Floyd, for sacrificing your life for justice,” Pelosi said in front of the U.S. Capitol Tuesday. “Because of you — and because of thousands, millions of people around the world who came out for justice — your name will always be synonymous with justice,” she added.</p></blockquote>
<p>George Floyd’s name will always be synonymous with justice? You’ve got to be kidding me.</p>
<p>I am not an intellectual coward who will simply accept the lie about George Floyd and the way that he lived as the truth just because the mob demands it. And believe me, it’s a lie.</p>
<p>The Left has tried to present Floyd as “Saint George,” assuring us that he was just “getting his life together,” and working to set a good example for others. But here’s the truth. Here is the person whose life and whose name is now “synonymous with justice.”</p>
<p>George Floyd had a lengthy and serious <a href="https://www.snopes.com/news/2020/06/12/george-floyd-criminal-record/">criminal record</a> that included nine arrests over the span of a decade which resulted in multiple stints in prison. The charges include delivery of a controlled substance (1997), two separate charges of theft (1998), failure to identify (2001), possession of a controlled substance (2002), trespassing (2003), another charge of delivery of a controlled substance (2004), possession with intent to manufacture or distribute (2005), and — most significantly — aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon (2007).</p>
<p>The 2007 aggravated robbery incident, for which he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five years in prison, was particularly disturbing. Here’s an excerpt from the police officers’ probable-cause statement:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>At this time, a black Ford Explorer pulled up in front of the Complainants’ residence and five other black males exited this vehicle and proceeded to the front door. The largest of these suspects [Floyd] forced his way into the residence, placed a pistol against the complainant’s abdomen, and forced her into the living room area of the residence. This large suspect then proceeded to search the residence while another armed suspect guarded the complainant, who was struck in the head and side areas by this second armed suspect with his pistol after she screamed for help.</i></p></blockquote>
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<p>I should also mention that along with another woman in the residence, there was also a toddler in the home during this traumatizing crime. Those two women and that toddler were just three of the victims George Floyd left in his wake. Yet, despite his lengthy criminal past, he is being celebrated as a wonderful human being. You are simply not allowed to acknowledge and speak the truth about his violent criminal record.</p>
<p>You’re also not allowed to talk about the inconvenient details of the events which led to Floyd’s death. You cannot discuss the fentanyl or methamphetamine in his system, or his history of drug usage or previous drug overdoses. None of that matters because now we live under mob rule. If a black man dies and a white person is around while that black person dies, it is a racially motivated crime. It doesn’t matter that the prosecution never proved that Derek Chauvin’s actions were racially motivated. It doesn’t matter because George Floyd has been propped up as the martyr of a movement.</p>
<p>There are children that are running around with George Floyd shirts. There are murals all over the country dedicated to George Floyd because his name has now become “synonymous with justice.” The question is justice for who?</p>
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<p>If this is all really about “black lives,” why can’t we discuss black criminality at the same time? After all, usually on the other end of black criminality is a black victim. That was the case with Jacob Blake, that was the case with George Floyd, and it’s the case over and over again around America.</p>
<p>That’s also the case in a story that has been trending this week in which a 16-year-old girl in Columbus, Ohio, Ma’Khia Bryant, was shot and killed on Tuesday by police. According to police, and as revealed in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/activists-erupt-after-police-kill-black-ohio-girl-video-shows-cop-protected-woman-from-knife-attack">body cam footage</a>, Bryant was attempting to stab another girl. That crucial detail apparently does not matter to the social justice mob.</p>
<p>We now live in a time where we must accept fiction as fact. It doesn’t matter that Bryant was lunging at another girl with a knife. What matters is that she was black and she died at the hands of a police officer. Maybe Nancy Pelosi will eventually declare that Ma’Khia Bryant’s name will also forever be “synonymous with justice”?</p>
<p>The goal of all the deception and lies from the Black Lives Matter movement is clear: to make sure black people love and support criminality. That is the goal. To make black people believe that we should be in the streets, rioting and looting and demanding justice for criminals. Because that is what most people killed “unjustly” in the eyes of Black Lives Matter are. They’re criminals.</p>
<p>George Floyd was in the process of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doctor-who-declared-george-floyd-dead-talks-excited-delirium-drug-use-during-derek-chauvin-trial">committing a crime</a>. I’m not saying he deserved to die, but I think he deserved to be arrested. They attempted to arrest him, something many seem to have forgotten given the media’s reluctance to provide the full video which shows the police calmly trying to put him into their vehicle multiple times. That video showed that Floyd resisted arrest, claiming he was “claustrophobic.” Perhaps he was claustrophobic because he had just <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doctor-who-declared-george-floyd-dead-talks-excited-delirium-drug-use-during-derek-chauvin-trial">ingested fentanyl</a>, a drug <a href="http://www.publichealth.lacounty.gov/sapc/managepainsafely/docs/Fentanyl%20FINAL.pdf?pdf=fentanyl">100 times</a> more potent than morphine?</p>
<p>But we must not ask such questions, and we must ignore the inconvenient details. Let’s ignore the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/01/us/courteney-ross.html">testimony</a> from his girlfriend who admitted that they had both been addicted to drugs. We could be talking about drug addiction. We <em>should</em> be talking about drug addiction. That would be a meaningful discussion, but instead let’s ignore all of the things that would help us fix black America. Let’s not talk about drug abuse. Let’s not talk about drug dealers. Let’s not talk about criminality.</p>
<p>The result of refusing to discuss these things, opting instead to focus on black victimhood, will be to ensure that black neighborhoods only get worse. When you start celebrating criminals, that is, of course, what is going to be the end result. We’re going to have more black death. We’re going to produce more black failures because we’re not allowed to talk about the truth anymore.</p>
<p>Right now in this country, we are facing a pandemic of cowardice. People are cowering to the mob, and that mob wants to dictate what can and can’t be said, what opinions you are and aren’t allowed to hold, and what is and isn’t true, with zero consideration for the facts.</p>
<p>More than ever, we need people willing to stand up and say that what is happening in this country is wrong and backwards. None of these criminals I mentioned are heroes to be revered and emulated. We must refuse to accept the media’s narrative and stop bowing down to the mob. That’s how we truly promote justice in our communities and our country.</p>
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<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.</em></p>
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Test: The Media Is Lying To You About George Floyd And Ma’Khia Bryant

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why are Americans spending so much on the healthcare industry but not getting any healthier? In the latest 5-minute video for PragerU, Johns Hopkins Medical School Professor Dr. Marty Makary breaks down the reasons Americans aren&#8217;t getting any healthier, and how to reverse the trend. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Makary, author of “The Price We Pay: What Broke American Healthcare And How To Fix It,” says there are two major reasons why the U.S. simply isn’t getting any healthier — even though we pay exorbitant prices for healthcare. </span></p>
<p>First, argues Makary, we fail to pay enough attention to our own health, even though it&#8217;s our greatest asset. Second, doctors don&#8217;t give enough focus to patients&#8217; basic needs. <span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;The healthcare system rewards us for doing things to people, not for people,&#8221; says Makary. </span></p>
<p>Americans have &#8220;a very expensive system<span style="font-weight: 400;"> to treat the most obese, medicated, comorbid population in the world,&#8221; he says. </span></p>
<p>For example, the number of drugs prescribed by doctors has doubled over the last ten years, and the rate of newly diagnosed Type-2 diabetes cases has increased by 4.8% per year. And during the pandemic, more than 78% of people hospitalized in the U.S. were either overweight or obese.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“So, what does the future look like,” asks Makary. “More sickness? More procedures? And more pills at an ever-increasing cost? Well, if we keep doing the same things we&#8217;ve been doing that haven&#8217;t worked for the last twenty-five years, the answer is yes.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He says &#8220;most people with Type-2 diabetes can come off their insulin simply by changing what they eat,&#8221; adding that, &#8220;when disease can be cured by a lifestyle change, medication should be the last resort.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“This requires a partnership between doctor and patient. Both have to make a commitment to get to the underlying cause of disease rather than simply treat symptoms,” says Makary. </span></p>
<p>Makary says that he and a &#8220;new wave of healthcare professionals&#8221; have been working on this approach.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Imagine healthcare professionals who treat diabetes with cooking classes, not just with insulin, or who treat back pain with ice, stretching, and physical therapy, rather than just with surgery by itself, says Makary. “We&#8217;re treating high blood pressure with healthy foods, yoga classes, stress management, and better sleep, instead of just putting people on pills,” he says. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;America has the finest healthcare system in the world, the most skilled doctors, the most advanced diagnostic and surgical techniques. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">It&#8217;s there if you need it,&#8221; he says. &#8220;</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The trick is to reduce the odds that you will need it. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">That&#8217;s not your doctor&#8217;s responsibility. That&#8217;s not the government&#8217;s responsibility. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">That&#8217;s yours.&#8221;</span></p>
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<p>A top historian is warning that so-called &#8220;woke&#8221; culture is a &#8220;fake religion&#8221; that must be reigned in or else it could have deadly consequences.</p>
<p>Hoover Institution fellow Niall Ferguson, a Scottish author and historian, appeared on Fox News host Tucker Carlson&#8217;s podcast &#8220;Tucker Carlson Today,&#8221; where he explained why the political Left does not focus on the economy very much anymore compared to the past.</p>
<p>&#8220;The people on the Left didn&#8217;t really want to have a conversation about economics, because they had lost their arguments in the 1980s; they really hadn&#8217;t been able to make the case for socialism successfully,&#8221; Ferguson said. &#8220;And the conclusion was that there was more money to be made, or more power to be gained by exploiting identity politics and emphasizing cultural, racial, gender differences.&#8221;</p>
<p>Later on in the podcast, Ferguson warned that Western society does not yet &#8220;fully realize, although it&#8217;s becoming more and more clear,&#8221; that &#8220;wokeism, is in fact, a religion.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not a secular political ideology &#8230; it&#8217;s not really about economics,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;It is about salvation, membership of the elect of the woke. It&#8217;s about persecuting heretics. It&#8217;s about elaborate rituals of speech that can only be pursued by the believers. It&#8217;s rather cult like, Matt Yglesias is not somebody I usually agree with, but he called it the Great Awokening. This was a very astute observation. So we are dealing not just with the decay of traditional religion, but far worse, the rise of new fake religions, political religions, and one thing that&#8217;s very clear from the 20th century is that when people take their religious feelings, and they apply them to political ideologies, terrible things can happen.&#8221;</p>
<div id="attachment_50604" style="width: 2410px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-50604" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-50604 size-full" src="https://dw-wp-dev.imgix.net/2020/06/shake-shack-landscape.jpg" alt="" width="2400" height="1600" srcset="https://dw-wp-dev.imgix.net/2020/06/shake-shack-landscape.jpg 2400w, https://dw-wp-dev.imgix.net/2020/06/shake-shack-landscape-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-dev.imgix.net/2020/06/shake-shack-landscape-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-dev.imgix.net/2020/06/shake-shack-landscape-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-dev.imgix.net/2020/06/shake-shack-landscape-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-dev.imgix.net/2020/06/shake-shack-landscape-2048x1365.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px" /><p id="caption-attachment-50604" class="wp-caption-text">&#8220;Central to what made communism so deadly, was it&#8217;s ultimately a religion, Marx is ultimately a prophet and Marxism is a kind of religion,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;The same was true of Nazism. The most ardent Nazis thought of Hitler and explicitly called him a redeemer of the German nation. So we&#8217;ve got to be very careful of political religions.</p></div>
<p>&#8220;Central to what made communism so deadly, was it&#8217;s ultimately a religion, Marx is ultimately a prophet and Marxism is a kind of religion,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;The same was true of Nazism. The most ardent Nazis thought of Hitler and explicitly called him a redeemer of the German nation. So we&#8217;ve got to be very careful of political religions. Politics is not something that you should approach with a religious impulse. If you start feeling religiously about politics, take a lie down, you know, have some sleep, take a long walk and try again because politics should not be imbued with religious sentiment.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Hoover Institution fellow Niall Ferguson (<a href="https://twitter.com/nfergus?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nfergus</a>), a Scottish a historian, warns about &quot;wokeism&quot;: &quot;We are dealing not just with the decay of traditional religion, but far worse, the rise of new fake religions, political religions&quot; <a href="https://t.co/3oP1xwLRHP">pic.twitter.com/3oP1xwLRHP</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1404713958569918465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 15, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote><p><em>TUCKER CARLSON, FOX NEWS HOST: So for the latest episode of Tucker Carlson Today, we sat down with perhaps the greatest historian of economic trends still alive, Niall Ferguson. And we asked him, why doesn&#8217;t anyone talk about the economy anymore? Here&#8217;s part of our conversation.</em></p>
<p><em>NIALL FERGUSON, ECONOMIST:  The people on the Left didn&#8217;t really want to have a conversation about economics, because they had lost their arguments in the 1980s, they really hadn&#8217;t been able to make the case for socialism successfully. And the conclusion was that there was more money to be made, or more power to be gained by exploiting identity politics and emphasizing cultural, racial, gender differences. And that&#8217;s where all the energy moved to. And it was bad luck for the working classes, I mean, hard luck for the economic losers from globalization and financialization, because they really cease to figure in the debates that were going on in the elite universities and then in the educational system, as a whole. </em></p>
<p><em>So I think the answer is that partly, there was just a shift of strategy on the Left away from economics into what seemed like the more fertile ground of culture. But it was also partly because the people who lost out in that period that we could date from maybe 2001, that&#8217;s when China joined the World Trade Organization, the people who&#8217;d lost out, were of no interest to the academic Left, the working class of Middle America, just cease to figure. </em></p>
<p><em>And I think one of the things that we don&#8217;t fully realize, although it&#8217;s becoming more and more clear, is that what the Left now offers, wokeism, is in fact, a religion. It&#8217;s not a secular political ideology. That&#8217;s why as you were saying earlier, it&#8217;s not really about economics. It is about salvation, membership of the elect of the woke. It&#8217;s about persecuting heretics. It&#8217;s about elaborate rituals of speech that can only be pursued by the believers. It&#8217;s rather cult like, Matt Yglesias is not somebody I usually agree with, but he called it the Great Awokening. This was a very astute observation. So we are dealing not just with the decay of traditional religion, but far worse, the rise of new fake religions, political religions, and one thing that&#8217;s very clear from the 20th century is that when people take their religious feelings, and they apply them to political ideologies, terrible things can happen. </em></p>
<p><em>Central to what made communism so deadly, was it&#8217;s ultimately a religion, Marx is ultimately a prophet and Marxism is a kind of religion. The same was true of Nazism. The most ardent Nazis thought of Hitler and explicitly called him a redeemer of the German nation. So we&#8217;ve got to be very careful of political religions. Politics is not something that you should approach with a religious impulse. If you start feeling religiously about politics, take a lie down, you know, have some sleep, take a long walk and try again because politics should not be imbued with religious sentiment.</em></p></blockquote>
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Top Historian: U.S. ‘Dealing Not Just With Decay Of Traditional Religion,’ But Something ‘Far Worse’

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<p>Arizona Republicans are rebuffing Biden-nominated U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, who said Friday that the Justice Department would be reviewing any election audits for alleged voter violations. Garland also knocked &#8220;abnormal&#8221; review methods, without specifically citing the Arizona audit.</p>
<p>&#8220;Some jurisdictions, based on disinformation, have utilized abnormal post-election audit methodologies that may put the integrity of the voting process at risk and undermine public confidence in our democracy,&#8221; Garland <a href="https://www.12news.com/article/news/politics/abnormal-methods-us-attorney-general-says-feds-will-review-arizonas-partisan-election-audit/75-da6c715a-98b9-43eb-adeb-393b0b9feb92">said</a>, as reported by 12 News.</p>
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<p>&#8220;We must rededicate the resources of the Department of Justice to a critical part of its original mission: enforcing federal law to protect the franchise for all voters,&#8221; Garland said.</p>
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<p>Election audits will be reviewed &#8220;to ensure they abide by federal statutory requirements to protect election records and avoid the intimidation of voters,&#8221; he added, and the DOJ will &#8220;publish guidance explaining the civil and criminal statutes that apply to post-election audits.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Arizona Republican Party Chairwoman Kelli Ward fired back Friday on Twitter, writing, &#8220;<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Seems Merrick either wants to ignore or forgot all about the US Constitution…</span><span class="r-18u37iz"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DOJHasNoSay?src=hashtag_click">#DOJHasNoSay</a></span> <span class="r-18u37iz"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StatesRights?src=hashtag_click">#StatesRights</a>.&#8221;</span></p>
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<p>&mdash; Dr. Kelli Ward 🇺🇸 (@kelliwardaz) <a href="https://twitter.com/kelliwardaz/status/1403803835076812801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 12, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>&#8220;You will not touch Arizona ballots or machines unless you want to spend time in an Arizona prison,&#8221; posted State Senator Wendy Rogers. &#8220;Maybe you should focus on stopping terrorism. The Justice Department is one of the most corrupt institutions in the USA.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">You will not touch Arizona ballots or machines unless you want to spend time in an Arizona prison. Maybe you should focus on stopping terrorism. The Justice Department is one of the most corrupt institutions in the USA.<a href="https://t.co/Jl2pKNpfJR">https://t.co/Jl2pKNpfJR</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Wendy Rogers (@WendyRogersAZ) <a href="https://twitter.com/WendyRogersAZ/status/1403456229486247942?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 11, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>The Biden DOJ has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-doj-attempts-to-stop-arizona-election-audit">already intervened</a> in the election auditing efforts by Maricopa County Republicans, sending a letter in May to the president of the Arizona state Senate suggesting the recount is illegal.</p>
<p>The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/arizona-recount-justice-department/2021/05/06/fbe4793c-ae87-11eb-b476-c3b287e52a01_story.html">reported</a> at the time that the DOJ letter raises “the possibility of a clash between state and federal authorities over the audit.”</p>
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<blockquote><p><em>Senate Republicans and the GOP-dominated Maricopa County Board of Supervisors disagreed about the accessibility of the ballots; the Senate wanted to perform an audit to address election integrity concerns from constituents, whereas the board argued the ballots, by law, were to be kept secret for 24 months following the election. The judge scolded the parties for failing to come to an agreement on their own but sided with the Senate, suggesting the law in question does not conflict with the subpoenas.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>“There is no question that the Senators have the power to issue legislative subpoenas,” Judge Thomason <a href="https://ktar.com/story/4102892/judge-rules-arizona-senate-can-get-access-to-2-1-million-ballots/">wrote</a> at the time. “The Subpoenas comply with the statutory requirements for legislative subpoenas. The Senate also has broad constitutional power to oversee elections.”</p>
<p>“The Arizona legislature clearly has the power to investigate and examine election reform matters,” the ruling said. “The Subpoenas also do not violate separation of powers principles. Production of the subpoenaed materials would not violate confidentiality laws.&#8221;</p>
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<p>The data manager who claimed Florida’s Department of Health was fudging COVID-19 numbers to make the state look better now says she plans to run for congress to unseat Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz.</p>
<p>NBC News last week, in an article glorifying alleged “whistleblower” Rebekah Jones while pointing out Gaetz’s political vulnerabilities, reported that Jones was planning to run for congress. “Florida Covid whistle-blower Rebekah Jones hopes to unseat scandal-scarred Rep. Matt Gaetz,” read NBC’s headline.</p>
<p>Of course, NBC did not mention <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/media-wanted-to-believe-florida-was-fudging-covid-19-data-but-the-story-is-a-fraud">any of the issues</a> with Jones’ claims or her history of false statements and legal issues. Last month, National Review’s Charles C.W. Cooke <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/05/rebekah-jones-the-covid-whistleblower-who-wasnt/">reported</a> that Jones’ claims about being told to alter Florida’s COVID-19 data isn’t even plausible on its face, as she never handled raw data and was given a copy of the data she was supposed to input in the system.</p>
<p>Further, Jones’ story changed dramatically the more she told it, from her initial claims that she was fired for merely questioning the data. The Associated Press initially <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/ousted-florida-virus-data-curator-history-violations-70853281">reported</a> that “Jones has not alleged any tampering with data on deaths, hospital symptom surveillance, hospitalizations for COVID-19, numbers of new confirmed cases, or overall testing rates — core elements of any assessment of the outbreak and of federal criteria for reopening.” The outlet also noted that “Jones acknowledges Florida has been relatively transparent — for which she herself claims some credit — and relatively successful in controlling the pandemic.”</p>
<p>Since that initial story, however, Jones began saying that, actually, yeah, her superiors &#8212; particularly Dr. Shamarial Roberson &#8212; had directly instructed her to “delete cases and deaths” to make Florida look better. She now claims Roberson “asked me to go into the raw data and manually alter figures.”</p>
<p>Again, remember that Jones didn’t have access to the raw data. She merely ran the dashboard. To further illustrate this point, National Review pointed out that Jones now runs her own dashboard, using the <em>same</em> data as the state, she simply displays it differently:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Or, to put it more bluntly, she displays them badly. When you get past all of the nonsense, what Jones is ultimately saying is that the State of Florida—and, by extension, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—has not processed its data in the same way that she would if she were in charge. But, frankly, why would it? Again, Jones isn’t an epidemiologist, and her objections, while compelling to the sort of low-information political obsessive she is so good at attracting, betray a considerable ignorance of the material issues. In order to increase the numbers in Florida’s case count, Jones counts positive antibody tests as cases. But that’s unsound, given that (a) those positives include people who have already had COVID-19 or who have had the vaccine, and (b) Jones is unable to avoid double-counting people who have taken both an antibody test and a COVID test that came back positive, because the state correctly refuses to publish the names of the people who have taken those tests. Likewise, Jones claims that Florida is hiding deaths because it does not in­clude nonresidents in its headline numbers. But Florida does report nonresident deaths; it just reports them separately, as every state does, and as the CDC’s guidelines demand. Jones’s most recent claim is that Florida’s “excess death” number is suspicious. But that, too, has been rigorously debunked by pretty much everyone who understands what “excess deaths” means in an epidemiological context—including by the CDC; by Daniel Weinberger, an epidemiologist at the Yale School of Public Health; by Lauren Rossen, a statistician at the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics; and, most notably, by Jason Salemi, an epidemiologist at the University of South Florida, who, having gone to the trouble of making a video explaining calmly why the talking point was false, was then bullied off Twitter by Jones and her followers.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Cooke followed up his initial reporting with <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/rebekah-jones-admits-she-was-never-asked-to-delete-covid-deaths-in-florida/">another article</a> pointing out that Jones finally admitted she was never asked to delete COVID deaths in Florida, something she had previously claimed. Jones made the admission while claiming she had never suggested she had been asked to do such a thing, but Cooke <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rebekah-jones-florida-whistleblower-claims-she-never-said-she-was-asked-to-delete-covid-deaths-she-claimed-that-specifically">had the receipts</a>.</p>
<p>Gaetz is not without his weaknesses, as he is currently under investigation by the Department of Justice, which claims he paid an underage girl for sex, a charge Gaetz vehemently denies. His spokesperson, Harlan Hill, told NBC that Gaetz “faces no criminal charges,” something Jones cannot say about herself, because she was charged in December with hacking into Florida’s computer system. She denies this.</p>
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<p>Because California has been hit with a calamitous drought, the water level in Folsom Lake near Sacramento has dropped precipitously, triggering the discovery of a fully-intact plane at the bottom of the lake, a plane that may have gone mysteriously missing in 1965 after a New Year’s Day crash.</p>
<p>Tyler Atkinson, one of the workers testing underwater sonar technology in Folsom Lake, told <a href="https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2021/06/12/el-dorado-county-technicians-believe-they-found-plane-wreckage-of-1965-folsom-lake-crash/">KOVR-TV</a>, “I saw something that was not normal.”</p>
<p>John Timplin, the president of Seafloor Systems, the underwater surveying company, stated, &#8220;He sees something on the bottom that looks man-made, and that&#8217;s when we say, &#8216;There&#8217;s definitely something down there,&#8217; and maybe it&#8217;s the plane.”</p>
<p>“The sonar gave us about 100 feet of range. You could see the plane as clear as day. We could see the fuselage here. We could see the right wing. We could see the tail,&#8221; said Timplin, referencing the imaging. “Here, you can see the cowl housing of the engine and the props.”</p>
<p>Jeff Riley, another employee who was with Atkinson, added, “These lights on the ROV (remote-operated underwater vessel) allow me to say, ‘Okay, there is no way that’s a rock.’”</p>
<p>The plane’s tail and propeller looked like those of the Piper Comanche 250 that crashed in 1965.</p>
<p>Atkinson <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/15/folsom-lake-plane-crash-california-drought">told KRON-4</a>, “I think it’s amazing that after all this time there’s been a lot of research and a lot of effort put into finding this for the family and also to retrieve what no one knew was down there.”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">The wreckage of a 1965 plane crash of a Piper Comanche 250 in Folsom Lake may have just been identified by researchers, using underwater sonar surveying equipment and low lake levels at the dam, outside of Sacramento. <a href="https://t.co/hddX54qsVA">https://t.co/hddX54qsVA</a> <a href="https://t.co/zbLgegDiQG">pic.twitter.com/zbLgegDiQG</a></p>
<p>&mdash; ABC7 News (@abc7newsbayarea) <a href="https://twitter.com/abc7newsbayarea/status/1404534205934153740?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 14, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>&#8220;The New Year&#8217;s Day crash following a mid-air collision with another plane 56 years ago killed all four people on board,&#8221; <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-drought-airplane-folsom-lake-sacramento-mystery-1965-crash/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&amp;linkId=121438306">CBS News</a> reported. &#8220;The body of the pilot was recovered, but the bodies of the three passengers were never found, despite searches as recently as 2014.&#8221;</p>
<p>Katherine Radican, whose late husband, Frank Wilcox, spent most of his life searching for the wreckage of the plane in which his 15-year-old brother was killed (Wilcox was three years old at the time of the crash), said, &#8220;He didn&#8217;t really know his brother, but him and his mom would go out to the lake periodically when the water was low and look around to see if they could see anything.”</p>
<p>Radican added that Wilcox had promised his mother he would keep looking for his brother&#8217;s remains so he could give him a proper burial.</p>
<p>“The plane carrying Wilcox&#8217;s brother on his first flight collided in midair with a small Beechcraft Debonair sightseeing plane at an altitude of about 2,500 feet, the Roseville Press Tribune reported at the time. Despite being damaged, the Beechcraft managed to make a successful emergency landing at a local airport, but the Piper Comanche plummeted into the lake and disappeared, the newspaper reported,” <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/1965-california-plane-crash-solved-underwater-researchers-discover/story?id=78265208">ABC News</a> noted, adding, “Folsom Lake, which has the capacity to hold 975,000 acre-feet of water, is down to about 361,000 acre-feet of water, or about 37% of capacity, according to California Department of Water Resources data released in May.”</p>
<p>The Placer County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said no investigation has been launched.</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">According to the radical wings of social media, the latest form of discrimination to have its roots in racism is “fatphobia.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Here’s your reminder that fatphobia is rooted in racism,” declared TikTok user Hannah Fuhlendorf, who describes herself as a “counselor” and “fat liberationist” in a <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@hannahtalksbodies/video/6908766941628861701?lang=en&amp;is_copy_url=1&amp;is_from_webapp=v1">video</a> that has garnered almost 400,000 views on the social media platform.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“As always, if you haven’t read this book, go do that,” Fuhlendorf continued, holding up a copy of “Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia” by Dr. Sabrina Strings. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The main thing to understand is that for the last 300-ish years, white folks have been marketing fatness as a black trait,” Fuhlendorf said. “And this is regardless of whether or not black people individually were actually fat. That was irrelevant.”</span></p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Finding fat people unattractive is racist <a href="https://t.co/nsGk16UHyY">pic.twitter.com/nsGk16UHyY</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1404434181011222536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 14, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The message they spread was that black women specifically were ravenous and uncontrollable and these barbaric traits made them fat,” Fuhlendorf added. “On the flip side, thinness was marketed as a white trait. Again, regardless of whether or not individual white people were actually thin. That was irrelevant.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The idea was that white women specifically were refined and restrained and this led them to having delicate, thin bodies,” Fuhlendorf concluded. “Over the years, these messages have become more subtle, but even today they are still very prevalent in conversations around race, health, capitalism, and poverty.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">According to her <a href="https://www.hannahtalksbodies.com/about-me">website</a>, Hannah Fuhlendorf offers coaching sessions for $180 per hour for individuals and $228 per hour for couples. She also notes that “</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Income-based reduced fees are not available at this time.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“My personal and ongoing experiences with fatphobia and sexism have fueled my desire to see people free from the prison of self-hate and internalized oppression. My goal is to support all of my clients in reaching their goals and stepping into their power,” Fuhlendorf explains in “My Story.” “</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">I practice from a HAES and fat liberation lens. I aim for my work to create a space of collaboration and empowerment.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Fat liberation,” also known as “fat acceptance,” “fat pride,” or “fat empowerment,” is a social movement that aims to change the so-called “anti-fat bias” regarding the stigma of obesity. Standing, in contrast, is a wide swathe of criticism from the medical community, arguing that the movement can promote a lifestyle with significant health consequences.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia” was published in May 2019.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Fearing the Black Body participates in a critical discourse that exposes the convergence of anxieties about race and fatness as it manifests in our current fatphobia. The text successfully demonstrates how the Black body has been subject to ongoing surveillance, and more specifically how it has been co-opted as a site where struggles around race and class issues play out,” wrote Fat Studies.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Strings is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine.</span></p>
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<p>Donald J. Trump is a real estate mogul and television personality who in 2016 pulled off a historic political upset over the &#8220;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/upshot/hillary-clinton-and-inevitability-this-time-is-different.html">inevitable</a>&#8221; Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. Trump was born in Queens, New York on June 14, 1946 and received his bachelor&#8217;s from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has been married three times, first to Ivana Trump (1977-1992), then to Mara Maples (1993-1999), and finally to Slovenia-born fashion model Melania Trump in 2005. From those marriages have sprung Trump’s children: Donald Jr., Ivanka, Eric, Tiffany, and Barron.</p>
<p><strong>Trump&#8217;s Business Empire:</strong> Over the decades Trump built a global business empire, largely based on his real estate ventures, which include luxury hotels, resorts, and golf clubs. He owns or is stakeholder in properties in several states, <a href="http://www.investopedia.com/updates/donald-trump-companies/">including</a> in California, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, and Virginia. He has started several businesses, some of which have flourished and others which have folded, like the for-profit Trump University, which during the 2016 campaign was beset by multiple lawsuits claiming fraud that were settled for <a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/31/522199535/judge-approves-25-million-settlement-of-trump-university-lawsuit">$25 million</a> soon after he became president in 2017. In addition to his properties, Trump sells or has sold, ties, wine, steaks, and a wide range of other products. In February 2017, Forbes estimated Trump&#8217;s net worth at around <a href="https://www.forbes.com/donald-trump/#1828ebe32899">$3.5 billion</a>. However, Trump estimates his own net worth at around three times that number — &#8220;in excess of $10 billion dollars&#8221; — among other things, citing his personal brand as being far more valuable than Forbes maintains.</p>
<p><strong>The 2016 Election:</strong> From the start, Trump’s unorthodox campaign was marked by controversy, in large part because of his refusal to obey the strictures of political correctness. Among the controversies, was his comment that many of those crossing the border illegally are &#8220;rapists&#8221; (a reference to <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/12/central-america-migrants-rape_n_5806972.html">reports</a> that a large percentage of unaccompanied minors from Central and South America are raped on the journey to the U.S.). He also called for a temporary “Muslim ban,” arguing for a halt on admission of immigrants and refugees from the terrorism-plagued countries in the Middle East until better vetting procedures are installed. Trump’s personal attacks on his opponents, both on the left and right, likewise earned him criticism. The result of the unprecedented campaign was widespread dismissal of Trump’s chances by political insiders, pundits, and pollsters alike.</p>
<p>Donald Trump became the 45th President of the United States on January 20, 2017. His defeat of Clinton on November 8, 2016, in which he garnered 306 electoral votes compared to Clinton&#8217;s 232, is arguably the biggest upset in the history of the U.S. presidential election. Though polling groups and the national media had almost uniformly <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/10660/just-how-wrong-were-pollsters-final-polls-vs-final-james-barrett">projected</a> Clinton to defeat Trump rather easily, by a little after 9 p.m. EST on election night, <em>The New York Times</em>&#8216; projection of the winner flipped on its head. By the end of the night, Trump&#8217;s &#8220;Make America Great Again&#8221; campaign won over most of the Rust Belt and the key swing states, including Florida, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.</p>
<p><strong>How old is Donald Trump?</strong> Donald Trump was born on June 14, 1946.</p>
<p><strong>How much is Donald Trump’s net worth?</strong> According to Forbes, Donald Trump’s net-worth was <a href="https://www.forbes.com/donald-trump/#1828ebe32899">$3.5 billion</a> in 2017. Around the same time, Donald Trump estimated his own net worth at over $10 billion.</p>
<p><strong>How did Donald Trump make his money?</strong> Donald Trump made his money primarily through various real estate ventures, including luxury hotels, resorts, casinos, and golf clubs.</p>
<p><strong>How many times has Donald Trump been married?</strong> Donald Trump has been married three times: to Ivana Trump (1977-1992), then to Mara Maples (1993-1999), and finally to Slovenia-born fashion model Melania Trump in 2005.</p>
<p><strong>Who are Donald Trump’s children?</strong> Donald Trump has five children: Donald Trump Jr. (b. 1977), Ivanka Trump (b. 1981), Eric Trump (b. 1984), Tiffany Trump (b. 1993), and Barron Trump (b. 2006).</p>


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